Smithing Template

Smithing templates are items used in smithing tables to alter tools and armor. They are consumed when used, but can be duplicated using an existing template, its material and diamonds.

The sixteen armor trim smithing templates are found in a variety of structures, and are used to apply various decorative trims (dependent on the variant) to armor using certain minerals for different colors.

Netherite upgrade smithing templates are required to upgrade diamond equipment with a netherite ingot. They are only found in bastion remnants, but are guaranteed only in treasure rooms.

Obtaining[]

Smithing templates can be found in various structures and can be duplicated by using seven diamonds and a block based on what the template is.

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Diamond + Matching Smithing Template + Netherrack or Cobblestone or Sandstone or End Stone or Terracotta or Cobbled Deepslate or Blackstone or Purpur Block or Prismarine or Mossy Cobblestone	22222222222222222

In Bedrock Edition, spire, tide, and dune armor trims can be duplicated with more blocks than in Java Edition. In addition to the normal blocks, Tide armor trims can be duplicated using Prismarine Bricks or Dark Prismarine, dune armor trims can be duplicated with smooth sandstone, cut sandstone, or chiseled sandstone, and spire armor trims can be duplicated with purpur pillars.^[1]

Mob loot[]

Elder guardians have a 20% chance to drop 1 tide armor trim upon death. Looting doesn't affect this percentage, and the elder guardian doesn't need to be killed by a player in order for the trim to drop and can be duplicated with prismarine.

Chest loot[]

Note: In Woodland Mansions, only chests with random loot have the chance to contain the Vex Smithing Template, chests in the "Allium room", "Sapling farm", "Tree-chopping room" and "Fake End portal room" always generate with the same, room specific, loot.

Suspicious block loot[]

Items can only be extracted from suspicious blocks using a brush.

Usage[]

Crafting ingredient[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Diamond + Matching Smithing Template + Netherrack or Cobblestone or Sandstone or End Stone or Terracotta or Cobbled Deepslate or Blackstone or Purpur Block or Prismarine or Mossy Cobblestone	22222222222222222

Smithing ingredient[]

Smithing templates are used at a smithing table. Netherite upgrade smithing templates are used to upgrade diamond gear into netherite gear by using a netherite upgrade, a piece of diamond gear, and a netherite ingot.

If the armor material and the trimming material are the same, the color palette used for the armor trim is darker.

Armor trim smithing templates are used to customize an armor piece's appearance by using a smithing template, an armor piece, and an ingot or crystal (emerald, redstone dust, lapis lazuli, amethyst shard, nether quartz, netherite ingot, diamond, gold ingot, iron ingot, or copper ingot). Including all dyed leather armor colors and regular armor, there are ≈3.679x10⁹ different possible armor pieces, and 7.16x10³⁵ total possible armor combinations excluding enchantments and the player not wearing armor.

Already trimmed armor can be trimmed again by applying another template on it; the old trim pattern is overwritten in the process.^[2] Therefore, one piece of armor cannot possess multiple trims at the same time.

Most armor trims cover a small portion of the armor piece's surface with the trim material, except for the silence armor trim, which allows the trim material to cover a majority of the armor piece's surface.

All of the trims are purely decorative, and don't impact gameplay or strength(without the use of mods or plugins) of the armor they are applied to in any way. Piglins do not pick up any gold-trimmed armor pieces, and they are not pacified by players wearing even a full set of gold-trimmed armor (unless, of course, the armor pieces in question are themselves golden), and netherite-trimmed armor pieces can still be burned by fire.

List of color palettes for all materials

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Data values[]

ID[]

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Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Crafting a New Look	Craft a trimmed armor at a Smithing Table	Adventure	—	adventure/trim_with_any_armor_pattern
	Smithing with Style	Apply these smithing templates at least once: Spire, Snout, Rib, Ward, Silence, Vex, Tide, Wayfinder	Crafting a New Look	—	adventure/trim_with_all_exclusive_armor_patterns

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition
1.20 (Experimental)		23w04a			Added smithing templates behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
		23w05a			Smithing templates can be used to trim leather armor.
					Gold, iron, diamond, and netherite armor can be trimmed with their respective material.
					The dune, coast, wild, and sentry armor trims now always generate two templates in a chest when found.
					Increased the chances for all smithing templates that generate in chest loot to spawn: Netherite upgrade chance to find increased from 3.2% to 10%. Coast chance to find increased from 11.1% to 16.7%. Dune chance to find increased from 11.1% to 14.3%. Eye chance to find increased from 4.7% to 10% in alter chests, and to 100% in library chests. Rib chance to find increased from 4.7% to 6.7%. Sentry chance to find increased from 20% to 25%. Snout chance to find increased from 4.7% to 8.3%. Spire chance to find increased from 4.7% to 6.7%. Vex chance to find increased from 4.7% to 50%. Ward chance to find increased from 4.7% to 5%. Wild chance to find increased from 20% to 33%.
1.20		23w12a			Smithing templates are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
					Added wayfinder, raiser, shaper, host, and silence armor trim smithing templates.
					Changed the textures of the sentry and dune armor trim smithing templates.
					The pattern textures of dune and sentry armor trims are changed from to . Those previous patterns were left with different names: dune was renamed sentry and sentry was renamed shaper.
		23w16a			Wayfinder, raiser, shaper, and host armor trim no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins.
					Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; wayfinder, raiser, shaper, and host armor trim now are in the rare loot.
		23w17a			The probability of the wayfinder, raiser, shaper, and host armor trim to generate in suspicious gravel in trail ruins has been changed from 1/11 to 1/12.
					The player now get the advancement "Crafting a new look" when they craft a trimmed armor at a smithing table using a smithing template, "Smithing with style" when they apply these smithing templates at least once on their armor: Spire, Snout, Rib, Ward, Silence, Vex, Tide, and Wayfinder.
Bedrock Edition
Next Major Update (Experimental)		beta 1.19.80.21			Added smithing templates behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.19.80.22			Added wayfinder, raiser, shaper, host, and silence armor trim smithing templates.
					Changed the textures of the sentry and dune armor trim smithing templates.
					The pattern textures of dune and sentry armor trims are changed from to . Those previous patterns were left with different names: dune was renamed sentry and sentry was renamed shaper.
1.20.0		beta 1.20.0.21			Smithing templates are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Smithing Template" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Smithing templates were named "Smithing Blueprints" in the prototype but was changed because the word "blueprint" sounded modern and technical.^[3]
• When Mojang developer Gnembon was working on armor trims, he accidentally messed up their rendering, making them jet through the player's body in a weird fashion, similar to what appears in Salvador Dalí's paintings where a hand might poke through a forehead.^[4]
• Some of the armor trims feature patterns based on a mob or block that is found in the same structure as the corresponding smithing template.^[5]
  • The spire armor trim resembles a shulker.
  • The vex armor trim resembles an evoker. As an item in the inventory, it resembles the wing or the vein texture of a vex.
  • The wild armor trim has moss growing on 3 of its corners.
  • The coast armor trim appears to have barnacles attached to it.
  • The ward armor trim, as an item in the inventory, resembles the faces inside a warden's chest.
  • The silence armor trim appears to have sculk creeping onto / infecting it.
  • The tide armor trim resembles prismarine bricks.
  • The snout armor trim resembles a piglin^[5].
  • The rib armor trim resembles a wither skeleton.
  • The eye armor trim resembles an eye of ender. There are also two eyes on the head part of the armor trim that resemble those of an enderman.
• Netherite upgrade smithing template (35 characters with "_" and 32 characters without "_") and sentry armor trim smithing template (35 characters with "_" and 31 characters without "_") are the current longest name for item ID, while polished blackstone pressure plate and cracked polished blackstone bricks have 34 characters with "_" and 31 characters without "_".
• The silence armor trim is the rarest trim, due to being found in ancient cities in the deep dark, and having only a 1.2% chance to be per chest.
• When lapis lazuli is used as trim material, it is called "Lapis" instead of its full name "Lapis Lazuli"; this is the only instance of the abbreviation "Lapis" being used in-game.^[6]

Gallery[]

Sprites[]

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  Netherite Upgrade

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  Sentry Armor Trim

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  Vex Armor Trim

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  Wild Armor Trim

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  Coast Armor Trim

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  Dune Armor Trim

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  Wayfinder Armor Trim

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  Raiser Armor Trim

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  Shaper Armor Trim

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  Host Armor Trim

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  Ward Armor Trim

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  Silence Armor Trim

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  Tide Armor Trim

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  Snout Armor Trim

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  Rib Armor Trim

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  Eye Armor Trim

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  Spire Armor Trim

Armor trim patterns[]

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  Sentry Armor Trim

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  Vex Armor Trim

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  Wild Armor Trim

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  Coast Armor Trim

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  Dune Armor Trim

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  Wayfinder Armor Trim

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  Raiser Armor Trim

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  Shaper Armor Trim

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  Host Armor Trim

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  Ward Armor Trim

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  Silence Armor Trim

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  Tide Armor Trim

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  Snout Armor Trim

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  Rib Armor Trim

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  Eye Armor Trim

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  Spire Armor Trim

Official Artwork[]

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  Sunny wearing amethyst armor trims.

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  A warden chasing Alex holding the silence armor trim.

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  Alex adding the silence armor trim and amethyst on iron armor.

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  Alex wearing the trimmed iron armor.

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  Noor working on trimmed iron armor.

Screenshots[]

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  Redstone trims on diamond armor.

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  Gold trims on netherite armor.

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  A large amount of armor trims.

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  Gold on netherite.

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  Diamond on diamond.

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  Emerald on gold.

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  Xilefian showing how armor trims work.

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  Xilefian showing how armor trims work.

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  Xilefian showing how armor trims work.

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  A display of all eleven (before Java Edition 23w12a) armor trims and ten colors on netherite armors.

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  A display of all eleven (before Java Edition 23w12a) armor trims, on netherite armor using emerald as the trim material.

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  A display of all ten armor trim colors, using the ward trim on a netherite helmet.

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  A display of all ten colors of the silence armor trim on all armors.

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  A screenshot of every armor trim in every color(besides quartz) on leather armor.

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  Official screenshot of Alex and Zuri wearing armor trims.

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  Copper trims on netherite armor.

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  Kai wearing trimmed armor in a Basalt Delta.

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